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Morning Worship Series
John 14:1-6
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 12, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled
John 14 opens in the midst of Jesus’s dialogue, a continuation from the previous chapter. The evening had begun with Jesus, their Rabbi and Messiah, humbly washing the disciples’ feet, followed by Jesus’s troubling statements that He was going away, and they could not come.
The disciples are troubled. Jesus leaving them is an unimaginable situation for the those who had left everything to follow Him. Though they claim they would lay down their lives for Him, Jesus predicts that the disciples will fail Him.
John 13:31-38
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 5, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The Final Lesson to Love One Another Like Christ
Jesus is a rabbi, a teacher in the Jewish culture, teaching final, critical lessons to His disciples. The upper room discourse begins in John 13:31-38. Earlier in John 13, Jesus provided an object lesson for His disciples when He washed their feet. As He will soon be departing, Jesus desires for His disciples to thrive without His physical presence, as they will not yet be able to follow Him.
No matter their fear, uncertainty, failure, or doubt, Jesus has a final, powerful lesson for His disciples to learn: that loving one another like Christ is the way of perseverance.
John 13:18-30
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 29, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
What Love Looks Like in the Face of Evil.
In John 3:16-21, Jesus talks about the difference between light and dark. Those who would reject Jesus rejected that light due to their deeds being exposed.
Last week we talked about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, but when Jesus came to Judas, He didn’t skip him. Jesus was instructing them on how to love in the face of evil.
John 13:1-17
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 22, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
You Should Love One Another as Jesus Loves You.
If you knew you had 24 hours to live, how would you spend it? A common answer is to spend it with the people you love the most. But if you knew those people would leave you during that time when you needed them most, would that change how you would spend it?
In John 13:1-17, Jesus knew that He was about to be betrayed and crucified. Yet Jesus called His friends to and modeled for them the defining characteristic of a Christ-follower.
John 12:36-50
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 15, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The Results of Jesus’ Ministry.
Many commentators who study the book of John divide the book into two parts, the first part being Jesus’ public ministry and the second part as His private ministry to His disciples. The passage today makes that clear in verse 36 when Jesus says, “while you have the Light, believe in the Light.”
Although Jesus performed many signs before them, the hearers would not believe. This leaves a question lingering in the air: Is Jesus’ ministry successful? The people Jesus came to save refused Him. The religious leaders rejected Him. The people He spoke to would put Him to death. Even Jesus’ disciples had to go into hiding.
However, the God of Heaven said, “Yes, You have glorified Me and You will glorify Me” (verse 28). In reality, Jesus’ ministry is powerful and merciful.
John 12:27-36
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 8, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Jesus Will Be Glorified through Suffering.
In John 12:27-36, we come to the end of Jesus’ public ministry. We’ve already talked about the curious Jew worshiping Jesus, the marvelous worshipper Mary, and covetous Judas. As we look at these groups and their responses to Jesus, hopefully we aren’t interested in just calculating what we can get from Jesus like Judas did. Instead, let’s elaborate on how the seed has to die in order to bear fruit.
John 12:20-26
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 1, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The heart of a true disciple will trust in Jesus no matter the cost.
John 12:12-19
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: The Gospel of John
- September 24, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The Triumphal Entry of Christ.
The Scriptures describe past military parades and conquests of Israel’s kings (1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles) as well as one to come (Rev. 6). John 12:12-19 is an explanation of the Christian’s greatest parade of conquest to this point in spiritual history. Recorded in all four gospels, the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem at the beginning of the Passover is the commencement of Christ’s passion week. We see an irony of faith in this grand parade for the Son of God who has come to suffer and die for the sin of the world.
John 12:1-11
- Pastor Kent Hobi
- Category: The Gospel of John
- September 17, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
To Worship Like Mary.
We learn from the woman at the well that true worshippers of God must worship in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24), while those who are forgiven much, love much, as demonstrated by the woman who washed Jesus’s feet with her tears (Luke 7:36-50). In John 12:1-11, we learn from Mary how to worship.
John 11:45-57
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- September 10, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Symptoms of Unbelief
John 11 marks the turn of Jesus’s public ministry to His private ministry. Jesus states that the purpose for the death and resurrection of Lazarus is the glory of God so that the Son of God may be glorified (John 11:4). The response to this miracle by the Jews and the religious leaders is the focus of the remainder of this chapter. Though some Jews believe in Jesus because of this miracle (John 11:45), many who were eyewitnesses to the death and resurrection of Lazarus do not believe in Him (John 11:46). We see unbelief acknowledge the miracle but resist submitting to the lordship of Christ.
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